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nvidia drivers - we don't recommend them because we have a habit of adding kernels quicker than NVIDIA can keep up with their proprietary drivers If you really

nvidia drivers - we don't recommend them because we have a habit of adding kernels quicker than NVIDIA can keep up with their proprietary drivers If you really want to use them, I'd recommend the dkms drivers we have in OBS https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_the_hard_way#Further_readings https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_the_hard_way#Further_read... And yes, I believe if you want you can install with sysvinit, though we are primarily a systemd distribution first (with extensive sysvinit compatibility.. people still love those runlevels)

wjoe 11y ago
Ah, that's fine in theory then - I use a dkms package on Arch too since I use a non standard kernel with VFIO patches for PCI passthrough. Interestingly I see people have reported getting PCI passthrough working with the standard SUSE kernel too, so I'll have to give that a try. As far as I can see the x11-video-nvidia package in the page you linked has quite an old nvidia driver version for Tumbleweed - https://software.opensuse.org/package/x11-video-nvidia https://software.opensuse.org/package/x11-video-nvidia Again I might be missing something, and in practice it might be easy to install the latest drivers, but this is a bit off putting. I don't know the details of how your build system works or why it keeping up with Nvidia drivers complicated, but this seems like it'd be quite a fundamental thing for a lot of users. The vast majority of people who play games on Linux are going to want recent proprietary Nvidia drivers, so having that as a footnote at the bottom of an article that says it's not recommended/supported doesn't inspire confidence. Still, I'm intrigued enough to give it a try.
- rbrownsuse 11y ago
  The search seems to be doing something weird at the moment.. There is a second "openSUSE Tumbleweed" under the "unsupported distributions" category, and that has the more up to date nvidia packages I'd expect If someone would like to take a look at the lovely ruby behind software.opensuse.org and fix that bug, I'm sure we'd love the pull requests :) https://github.com/openSUSE/software-o-o https://github.com/openSUSE/software-o-o
digi_owl 11y ago
> people still love those runlevels Ts'o has a interesting use case for runlevels that didn't translate well to systemd. He set up a runlevel on his laptop that was the same as the graphical one, except it stopped various daemons etc to keep battery drain low. He would then switch to said runlevel when he would be away from a socket for an extended period. When he tried to translate that to systemd, he ended up with all kinds of side effects. One of them being that he lost access to the Fn combos, so he could no longer control the screen brightness etc.

wjoe 11y ago

Ah, that's fine in theory then - I use a dkms package on Arch too since I use a non standard kernel with VFIO patches for PCI passthrough. Interestingly I see people have reported getting PCI passthrough working with the standard SUSE kernel too, so I'll have to give that a try. As far as I can see the x11-video-nvidia package in the page you linked has quite an old nvidia driver version for Tumbleweed - https://software.opensuse.org/package/x11-video-nvidia https://software.opensuse.org/package/x11-video-nvidia Again I might be missing something, and in practice it might be easy to install the latest drivers, but this is a bit off putting. I don't know the details of how your build system works or why it keeping up with Nvidia drivers complicated, but this seems like it'd be quite a fundamental thing for a lot of users. The vast majority of people who play games on Linux are going to want recent proprietary Nvidia drivers, so having that as a footnote at the bottom of an article that says it's not recommended/supported doesn't inspire confidence. Still, I'm intrigued enough to give it a try.

rbrownsuse 11y ago
The search seems to be doing something weird at the moment.. There is a second "openSUSE Tumbleweed" under the "unsupported distributions" category, and that has the more up to date nvidia packages I'd expect If someone would like to take a look at the lovely ruby behind software.opensuse.org and fix that bug, I'm sure we'd love the pull requests :) https://github.com/openSUSE/software-o-o https://github.com/openSUSE/software-o-o

digi_owl 11y ago

> people still love those runlevels Ts'o has a interesting use case for runlevels that didn't translate well to systemd. He set up a runlevel on his laptop that was the same as the graphical one, except it stopped various daemons etc to keep battery drain low. He would then switch to said runlevel when he would be away from a socket for an extended period. When he tried to translate that to systemd, he ended up with all kinds of side effects. One of them being that he lost access to the Fn combos, so he could no longer control the screen brightness etc.